ROTTERDAM (Reuters) – Investigators trying to find out who shot down Malaysia Airlines MH17 over eastern Ukraine have recovered 25 pieces of metal from baggage and bodies, which could lead them to the missile believed to have torn apart the airliner. …read more Source:...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union tightened sanctions on Russia on Friday over its role in the Ukrainian conflict, restricting access to financing for top Russian banks, defense and energy firms and freezing the assets of senior politicians and rebel leaders. …read more Source:...

Petro Poroshenko says at Kiev summit that it would be impolite for Brussels to refuse Ukraine a ‘membership perspective’Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has said he expects Ukraine to join the European Union eventually, and said Europe would be safer, richer and younger with his wartorn country as a member.Speaking at a...

Chief Dutch prosecutor says the shooting-down explanation is getting the most attention in international criminal investigationThe possibility that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down from the ground is the “most likely” scenario being explored by dozens of detectives, according to the Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal...

The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that the EU, by imposing new economic sanctions on Russia, “has made its choice against a peaceful settlement of the internal crisis in Ukraine”. It added that EU authorities “are putting them [EU citizens] under the risk of confrontation, economic stagnation, and unemployment”....

Ukraine leader Petro Porosenko has said the European Parliament and the Ukrainian assembly, the Vekrhovna Rada, will on 16 September jointly ratify the EU-Ukraine free trade pact. Ukraine’s foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin will also meet with EU and Russian delegates in Brussels on Friday to discuss implementation of the treaty. …read...